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New Zealand. Army. NZEF. New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade :New Zealand Rifle Brigade. Soyes ferme. "A Merry Christma"s t'you", from ... somewhere in ... To ... Xmas 1918.
- Date
- 1918
- By
- New Zealand. Army. NZEF. New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade; Prain, George Gordon, 1892-1959
- Reference
- Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWI-1918-05
- Description
Greeting card from the New Zealand Rifle Brigade shows three cartoon illustrations by Prain, one unsigned on the front cover, and two signed on the inside spread. The back cover reproduces the sheet music of the refrain to the official march of the New Zealand Division: "Aotea Roa", the land of the long white cloud, [words by H S Ribbands], published by West & Co., Charing X [Cross] Road, London. Band arrangement by J Ord Hume - full military.
The cartoon on the front cover shows a soldier in a hard hat eating a pot of stew: "A Merry Christmas stew".
The inside spread shows two cartoons, titled "Our festive season I and II". On the left, the Gay Bachelor tells how he spent Christmas writing field service postcards. On the right the sober married man on a desolated battlefield thinks of writing to his wife "How could my Christmas be miserable, darling, while I had you to think about?".
Other Titles - Christmas stew; To you
Other Titles - Stay resolute
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Offset print on card, folded to 169 x 133 mm.
Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at A-441-085/086, MS-Group-1943, and Photographic Archive.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Christmas cards sent during the First World War, from soldiers and other service personnel. 1917-1918]
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Christmas cards, Offset print on card, folded to 169 x 133 mm.
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